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- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
citizens in the future. To change that trade-off significantly, I believe we need to get new dispatchable, zero-carbon technologies on the table within the next 10 years that can beat coal on price in India... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
The financial field may be permanently changed by the explosive ups and downs of the tech sector, but old standards of quality and planning will still make or break new businesses, HBS professor Howard H. Stevenson said. In his keynote... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 16 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?
Watch out. Apple hopes to claim a new frontier on your wrist. The company announced its new Apple Watch on Tuesday, sending journalists and a bevy of other observers, online and off, into a flurry of... View Details
- 09 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary
Imagine you walk into a shop where you don’t know the prices. Maybe it’s a Turkish souk, redolent with smells of saffron and turmeric. Or maybe it’s a New Hampshire antique store, full of dusty shelves of enticing oddities. You pick out... View Details
- 27 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Beware the Lasting Impression of a 'Temporary' Selfie
social channels before hiring candidates. “These temporary-sharing technologies are supposed to solve this problem of the internet never forgetting,” says Leslie K. John, the Marvin Bower Associate Professor at Harvard Business School,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations
potential is offered my outstanding operations. Federal Express and L. L. Bean are superb examples of this. Finally, the operations landscape, like everything else, is being revolutionized by information technology (IT) and the Internet.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 29 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019
plans for future workforce makeup and training, and its search for opportunities from digital infrastructure and automation. What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
articles. Much of Porter's thinking originally appeared in the pages of the Harvard Business Review. Eleven of those seminal articles are collected in On Competition, a book published by the Harvard Business School Press. In addition, Porter has contributed an... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
new information technology as a way of categorizing and accessing information in an attempt to streamline a process that already exists. Adopting these systems can have significant implications for how... View Details
- 04 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is E-commerce at Risk in Apple's Security Dispute with the FBI?
phones for the government and something else for the public. The FBI, for this new age, may need to break down these technological barriers themselves, perhaps by hiring their own computer scientists instead... View Details
- 27 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Social Network Marketing: What Works?
leads to almost a 14 percent drop in revenue from the high-status group. Q: Despite the ability to gather millions of users, the business viability of social networking sites seems uncertain. Is there any good View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
substantially, NASA would have to place much greater emphasis on technology re-use, developing designs that were expected to fulfill multiple missions. In this respect, borrowing some ideas from business... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2000
- What Do You Think?
Whither the Information Economy?
end is knowledge. As he puts it, "to gain more knowledge, we will have to think more." In his view, information is no substitute for thinking and knowledge. Nor, in the opinion of Suresh Annappindi, has new View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
learning to analyze images. Using these techniques, he took some 3,600 images of New York City blocks, obtained from the Google Street View Image API, and “taught” the computer to recognize various features,... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends
Over the last ten years, technology has reduced entire catalogues of consumer goods to devices that fit in the palms of our hands. Phones are smarter, networks are faster, and more people have access to more information than ever before.... View Details
- 27 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care
for a period as medical residents turn over in teaching hospitals. Who Drives Digital Innovation? Evidence from the US Medical Device IndustryDoes large-scale technological change characteristic of an... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?
more densely populated places like San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City for the countryside early in the pandemic. Some purchased or rented a second house; some stayed at their weekend getaway or... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy
opportunities to do new things that would otherwise be impossible," he continued, "all the while providing organizations with the power to personalize their services and create communities in unprecedented fashion. "What's... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Howard Stevenson on the Lessons of the Internet Era
nice," Stevenson quipped. In the new world order, Stevenson said, here are the keys: Hire great people; take a pass on the mediocre Understand and use technology Think globally Don't believe your own... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Brands Work
Nissan, and Honda sold standard products under a single brand umbrella. For decades, Ford adapted its manufacturing platforms, features, and model names from one country to another. The results: added manufacturing and supply chain costs... View Details